Author Archive: Bernews1

3rd Budo Cup Championships Results

The 3rd Budo Cup Kumite Championships took place inside the Bermuda High School for Girls [BHS] Gymnasium today [Dec.17]. The official World Karate Federation [WKF] event saw Azzaria Mouchette, Ayden Gardener, Daeshun Smith, Trey Vance, William Attridge, Ravi Cannonier and Soleil Richardson all win their division. Full results: Boys 4-5: 1.... Read more of this article

Minors Wins New Hampshire Race

Teenage track star Dage Minors took part in the New Hampshire Indoor Track Meet at the Dartmouth High School this weekend, winning the 1500m race. Minors competing for his school St. Johnsbury took part in the Boys 1500 Meter Race clocking a time of 4:16.50 that saw him win the race by a clear 11 seconds over second place finisher Patrick Lynch who... Read more of this article

Northern Offshore’s Vietnam Contract

Bermuda’s Northern Offshore, Ltd. this week announced that the Joint Operating Company Vietgazprom [VGP], a joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom, has selected the drillship “Energy Searcher” [pictured] for an upcoming drilling programme off the Vietnam coast. The duration is for a four-well programme expected to last approximately... Read more of this article

‘The Inbetweeners’ Movie Screening

The alternatively awkward and comic growing pains of British adolescents are coming to the screen at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] theatre next month when the Caledonian Society of Bermuda screens “The Inbetweeners: The Movie.” Adapted from the hit TV series of the same name, the film was one of the biggest box office... Read more of this article

Swan: Lack Of Visitor Accommodation

United Bermuda Party MP Kim Swan has said that in an effort to boost tourism we should encourage “Bermudian Executive homeowners to consider converting their apartments to licenced tourist accommodations.” The lack of visitor accommodation is one of the challenges to the tourism industry which was recently identified by the Tourism Board... Read more of this article

Last Olde Towne Market Of 2011

[Cancelled] St. George’s last Olde Towne Market for the year will be held on Sunday [Dec.17], offering everything from home-made jams and preserves to Christmas gift baskets for those thinking of putting authentically Bermudian presents under their trees. Water Street will be lined with stalls when the popular East End event gets underway at 2... Read more of this article

Ben Franklin’s Bermuda Sea Monster

One of America’s Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is best remembered on the island for coordinating an audacious plan in collaboration with Colonel Henry Tucker, the head of a local family, to obtain the store of gunpowder in the Royal Arsenal at Bermuda during the Revolutionary War. To give Bermuda much-needed foodstuffs in exchange for the... Read more of this article

Video: 1959 ‘Portrait Of Bermuda’

Iran’s former empress, New York’s mayor and the Duke of Edinburgh are among the celebrities filmed against Bermuda backdrops in a 1959 promotional film extolling the island as a dream location for vacationing photographers. “Portrait of Bermuda” was released by the Bermuda Trade Development Board, aimed at the mushrooming market... Read more of this article

Video Replay: WHS Equestrian Show

[Live stream over] The first day of the Welcome Home Equestrian Show started at 10am today [Dec.17], and you can watch the action live below. This event will showcase some of the island’s top equestrians; Patrick Nisbett and Jillian Terceira, fresh off their Pan Am Games competition; Ki Minors currently in Wellington, Florida, where he has been... Read more of this article

Music Video: Twanee’s ‘Fire It Up’

Bermudian singer Twanée Butterfield continues to demonstrate she is on a red-hot streak with her newly released music video “Fire It Up.” The talented singer has been performing publicly from the age of seven. She has won both the Miss Hal Jackson Talented Teen Bermuda contest and the Bermuda Singing for Success competition. Ms Butterfield... Read more of this article

The Dual Legacies Of Denmark Vesey

Ground was broken last year for a South Carolina monument commemorating the former slave of a Bermuda sea captain accused of organising the largest slave revolt in American history — but uncertainty continues to cloud the true legacy of Denmark Vesey. The memorial, designed by celebrated American sculptor Ed Dwight, will stand in Charleston’s... Read more of this article

24-Yr-Old Man Shot On North Shore

[Updated] At approximately 3.30am this morning [Dec.17] there was a shooting outside the Gravity Nightclub on North Shore in Devonshire. We unofficially understand that a man in his early 20s was shot multiple times and rushed to hospital via ambulance for treatment. As of 4.15am the hospital had a police presence outside, and a security guard restricting... Read more of this article